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Biophilic Life “...Sometimes, I find it very stupid when I fill my lungs with oxygen and breathe. We could do much better. We could be flying or be a frequency in the air....” having a mobile connection), paraesthesia & pain in the hands as a result of nerve entrapment. On the other hand, the news of Mark Zuckerberg who increased his property to 1,300 hectares in Hawaii by purchasing additional 600 hectares land with a sea view. What is changed? Butterfly Effect in the Chaos Theory of the mathematician Edward Lorenz basically states that: a small change on the initial conditions of a system can result in large differences in a later state. So, far too many changes are occurring by the effect of an un-flattering bat in China region recently…
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Aylin Altuntaş Istanbul/London/Dubai Founder @AA Executive Consulting / Board Member @Future Healthcare Conference, Istanbul
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hese lines are from a British science fiction-dystopic TV series, Years & Years when two teenage girls are chatting about their desire to transfer their brain to computer and become Trans-Humans to be immortal. The film was shot in 2019 and Covid-19 was not in our life yet. Therefore, to be able breathe by filling the lungs with oxygen might have seemed rather “stupid”. Today, there is the news of new diseases resulting from the excessive use of mobile phones and social media such as photolurking (spending hours by glancing at other people’s photos), cyberchondria (over-anxiety about one’s health by using internet search for medical information), nomophobia (the fear and anxiety caused by not
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The new lifestyle is spreading by word of mouth, inspired from the Hanging Gardens of Babylon which is said to have been built in the ancient city of Babylon, near present–day Hillah, Babil province in Iraq. The Hanging Gardens were built by the Neo-Babylonian King Nebuchadnezzar (who ruled between 605 and 562 BC) for his depressed Median wife Queen Amytis, who was homesick of the green hills and valleys of her homeland. The gardens were described as a remarkable feat of engineering with an ascending series of tiered gardens in the shape of a pyramid. The building itself was not seen because of the terraces containing a wide variety of trees, shrubs and vines, which looked like they were hanging in the air. The boats were floating in the cannels that was formed by the water carried from the Danube River… Biophilic life aims to restore the lost connection of mankind with the nature. A natural living space is built for the humans as a form of biological organism in the eco-system. Indoor and outdoor colourful plants, self-sufficient buildings constructed by the sustainable materials, refreshing weather, natural lighting, provinces lost in greenery... Singapour after a fast urbanisation, came to
THE RESEARCHES SHOW THAT, THE SPACES THAT REDUCE CARBON DIOXIDE HAVE A POSITIVE EFFECT ON THE MEMORY AND HAPPINESS. THE HIGH AMOUNT OF GREEN AREAS INCREASES THE STAFF SATISFACTION AND THEREFORE THE PRODUCTIVITY.
